Yahya (name)

يحيى
Gender	Male
Other names
Related names	Jehiah, Yohanan, John, Evan, Giovanni, Hans, Hovhannes, Ian, Ioan, Ioane, Ioannis, Ivan, Iven, Ifan, Jack, Jackson, Jan, Jane, Janez, Jean, Jhon, Joan, João, Johan, Johannes, Jonne, Jovan, Juan, Juhani, Seán, Shane, Siôn, Yohannes

Yahya (Arabic: يحيى, romanized: Yaḥyā), also spelled Yehya, is an Arabic male given name. According to the Qur'anic narrative, it is an^[a] Arabic form of the given name John, originally Hebrew Yohanan (Yəhôḥānān יְהוֹחָנָן‎ "Yahu is gracious"), i.e. primarily John the Baptist, who is known as Yahya ibn Zakariyya in Islam, and is considered a prophet in Islam. For this reason, Yahya is a comparatively common name in the Muslim world. The related Biblical name of Jehiah (Yᵊḥîyâ יְחִיָּה "Yahu lives") has the Arabic form Yaḥiyyā يَحِيَّى.^[1], having the same Arabic consonantal text as the name Yahya does.

In Persian, Yahya is a title of address for a senior village or community elder.^{[citation needed]} It is also a common nickname for the 12th Imam.^{[citation needed]}

^ The other Arabic form of the given name John is Yūḥannā يوحنا, which is the form directly derived from the Hebrew original form, Yəhôḥānān יְהוֹחָנָן‎. A notable example of the use of this form is of the Arabic original name of John of Damascus.

Mononym

Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century), Arabic medical writer known in medieval Europe as Johannes Serapion
Yahya ibn Khalid (died 806), Vizier of the Persian Barmakids family
Yahya ibn Umar ibn Yahya ibn Husayn ibn Zayd ibn Ali Zayn al-Abidin ibn Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Murtada,^[2] Alid imam
Yahya ibn al-Walid, was an Umayyad prince and son of Umayyad caliph Al-Walid I (r. 705–715).
Yahya ibn Yazid, was an Umayyad prince and son of Umayyad caliph Yazid II (r. 720–724).
Abu Yahya Ibn al-Batriq (fl. 796–806), translator of Greek scientific texts
Yahya ibn Asad, Samanid ruler of Shash (819–855) and Samarkand (851/852–855)
Yahya ibn Muhammad (aka Yahya I), Idrisid ruler (848–864)
Yahya ibn Yahya (died 874), sixth Idrisid ruler and sultan of Morocco
Yahya of Antioch (Yahya ibn Sa'ïd), 11th-century Syrian chronicler
Yahya (Zaragoza) (fl. 1021–1029), full name Yahya ibn al-Mundhir, 11th century ruler of Zaragoza
Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi, 15th century Persian language writer from the Delhi Sultanate of India
Sultan Yahya (1585–1649), son of Sultan Mehmed III, a Christian convert and a claimant to the Ottoman throne
Yahya bey Dukagjini (1498–1582), Ottoman diwan poet

Given name

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (born 1986), American actor
Yahya Al-Shehri (born 1990), Saudi footballer
Yahya Ayyash (1966–1996), member and chief bombmaker of Hamas
Yahya Boushaki (1935–1960), Algerian politician and military
Yahya El Hindi (born 1998), Lebanese footballer
Yahya Goba, Yemeni-American terrorist suspect arrested and charged as part of the War on Terror together with the other members of the "Lackawanna Six"
Yahya Golmohammadi (born 1971), Iranian footballer
Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869–1948), imam of the Zaydis (1904) and king of Yemen (1926)
Yahya Hassan (born 1995), Palestinian-Danish poet and politician
Yahya Jammeh (born 1965), president of The Gambia
Yahya Khan (1917–1980), former Chief Martial Law Administrator of Pakistan and Chief of Army Staff
Yahya Rahim Safavi (born 1958), commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
Mirza Yahya Nuri Subh-i Azal (1831–1912), Persian religious leader of Azali Bábism
Yahya Petra of Kelantan (1917–1979), sixth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (roughly equivalent to King) of Malaysia
Yahya ibn Muhammad (829-864), fifth Idrisid ruler of Morocco
Yahya ibn Yahya, sixth Idrisid ruler Morocco
Yahya ibn al-Qasim, eighth Idrisid ruler of Morocco
Yahya ibn Idris ibn Umar, ninth Idrisid ruler of Morocco
Yahya ibn Ibrahim, one of the founder of the Almoravid dynasty
Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni, chieftain of Lamtuna and the first emir of the Almoravid
Abu Zakariya Yahya, founder and the first sultan of the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya
Yahya Rahmani Indian social [1]

Surname

Adel Yahya (born 1982), English Islamist
Ahmad bin Yahya (1891–1962), Yemeni imam
Ali Yahya (1947–2014), Israeli Arab diplomat
Yaish Ibn Yahya (ca1115-ca1151 or 1196), Scholar, politician, military leader.
Izz al-Din Yahya, 14th-century ruler of Satgaon, Bengal
Mohammed Yahya (1901–1990), Pakistani politician
Tahir Yahya (1916–1986), Iraqi politician
Yahya Rahmani indian social Activist [2]
Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq, Marinid emir at Fez
Yaghmurasen ibn Zyan, also called Abu Yahya I, the first sultan of the Zayyanid dynasty at Tlemcen
Abu Hafs Umar bin Yahya, Hafsid caliph of Ifriqiya
Abu Yahya Abu Bakr as-Shahid, Hafsid caliph of Ifriqiya and a martyr
Shiekh Muhammad Yahya Waseem, Son of Waseem Akbar

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[1] The other Arabic form of the given name John is Yūḥannā يوحنا, which is the form directly derived from the Hebrew original form, Yəhôḥānān יְהוֹחָנָן‎. A notable example of the use of this form is of the Arabic original name of John of Damascus.

[2] Van Dyck Bible: 1 Chronicles 15:24

[3] Incipient decline, By Ṭabarī, Joel L. Kraemer, pg.105-106

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